I Decided To Change My Springs And Shocks At Home

[Beer Baron]

Duncan,,,If I ever catch you with a jack under a brake disc your gonna look pretty funny walking around with your torque wrench up ya bum.

Neil.

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i was just going to say the same thing... then i remembered that time when duncan badly needed rear discs due to cracking... hmm. perhaps part of the lower arm is a more appropriate place to jack it up.

[Beer Baron]

those rear springs look to be about the same rate as the stock ones you took out.

[Abo Bob]

This is a picture of a Whiteline rear spring installed in an R34GTT.  Bit hard to tell from the angle but the top 2 coils are closer together than the other 5 coils.  This ensure that the spring is trapped at full droop (as in the picture).  Once the weight of the car is applied those 2 top coils collapse, sit on top of each other and the suspension movement (eg; compression over bumps) is then taken up by the remaining coils. 

I will be very interested in how you find the handling and ride with your design of rear coil spring.

Cheers

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Well I'll certainly keep you informed.

I can see what you are saying. Perhaps mine are not progressive rate springs?

The sucky thing is that because I've been driving around in a stock suspension R31 since I blew the engine on 11/9 anything will seem harder. It will probably take a week or 3 to be able to feel the difference between the old setup and this one.

Luckily I've got another complete set of king springs sitting there which can go in if these ones turn out bad. It's not too hard now I know what I'm doing and the bolts have been recently cracked making it a bit easier.

[nuffsaid]

Whiteline springs have a linear rate the last time I asked.

Kings...progressive

[predator]

Here you can see the difference between the unladen stock front springs and the whitelines.. This is in an R32, but similar. I really liked the fact you didn't have to use spring compressors to get the whitelines back in, they are pretty much a "perfect" fit between the strut top and shock.

[Abo Bob]

So it might all be ok then. Thanks pred.

[Abo Bob]

Well the ride height is even so no worries there. Haven't driven it really to see what the difference in handling is.

[Abo Bob]

It's all fairly even. Looks like I've lowered it 2.5cm which is what I wanted. I've driven around a bit and it's firmer than before but not ridiculously so. It was still ok on the highway down the coast and some fairly bumpy roads down there.

I'm yet to get to the track but we will see when I do.